Intentional Torts & Negligence
A tort is a civil wrong that causes someone harm. Some torts are deliberate; others come from carelessness. These claims sometimes arise alongside a workplace problem, and in appropriate cases we bring them in New York and Connecticut. Whether we can help depends on the facts, and no outcome can be promised.
Intentional Torts
- Assault: a threat that puts you in reasonable fear of imminent harmful contact.
- Battery: intentional, harmful or offensive physical contact without consent.
- False imprisonment: being held or confined against your will without legal justification.
- Malicious prosecution: being the target of a baseless legal case brought for an improper reason that ended in your favor.
- Abuse of process: misusing legal procedures, such as a subpoena or summons, for an improper purpose.
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress: extreme and outrageous conduct that causes severe emotional harm.
- Trespass and conversion: interfering with your property, or taking or keeping it as if it were someone else’s.
- Fraud: lies about important facts, made to get you to act, that you relied on and that caused you harm.
- Defamation: false statements of fact that damage your reputation.
Negligence
- Negligence: careless conduct that falls below reasonable care and causes injury.
- Negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention: an employer’s failure to take reasonable care in choosing, training, overseeing or keeping an employee who causes harm.
If you were injured on the job, workers’ compensation is often the only remedy against your own employer in both New York and Connecticut, although claims against other people or companies may remain.
Deadlines
Deadlines for these claims are short and differ by claim. In New York, assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and defamation claims generally must be brought within one year (CPLR 215(3)), and most negligence claims for personal injury within three years (CPLR 214). Claims against a New York city, county or other public entity usually require a notice of claim within 90 days. In Connecticut, negligence claims generally must be brought within two years of when the injury was or should have been discovered (General Statutes §52-584), and many other tort claims within three years (§52-577).
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